Chirayu Rana filed a new lawsuit on Monday in Manhattan Federal Court against JPMorgan Chase, adding three current or former bank employees as defendants and recasting the case around racism and retaliation. The revised filing still accuses Lorna Hajdini of drugging and sexually assaulting him, but it removes some of the most explosive language from his earlier complaint.
The new suit comes after Rana’s original case filed last April drew global attention for explicit accusations against Hajdini. He is now making a narrower legal push, one that centers on what he says happened inside the bank: racial slurs, mocked ancestry and punishment for speaking up. The filing says bankers called him a “monkey,” a “Brown boy” and “Brownie,” joked about paying him in rupees, and taunted him in screenshots of group texts that allegedly referenced his Nepalese background.
That is why the filing is being watched now. It lands as Rana tries to keep his broader story alive while changing the legal shape of it. The new complaint adds JPMorgan managing directors Brandon Graffeo and Jon Wolter and associate Kelly Crowe as defendants alongside JPMorgan Chase and Hajdini, and it says the bank fostered a workplace where racism was normalized, sexual coercion was tolerated and retaliation was used against people who would not stay quiet.
The revision also fixes one of the most damaging gaps in Rana’s earlier case. His new filing amends a bereavement-leave claim and now says the leave was for his critically ill mother, after The Post reported that his father was alive and well in Virginia. That change does not resolve the larger credibility problem around the suit, but it shows the case has already been forced to adapt under scrutiny.
Even so, Rana has not walked away from the most serious allegation in the file. He maintains that Hajdini told him in May 2024, “If you don’t f–k me soon, I’m going to ruin you…Never forget, I f–king own you,” and that she later said she would sabotage his promotion “if you don’t f–k my brains out tonight.” His lawyer, Jon Norinsberg, said JPMorgan had “fed the public a false and misleading narrative about this case,” and added, “That ends today.”
The new lawsuit is less sprawling than the first one, but it is not less risky for Rana. By dropping some sensational claims while preserving the accusations of racial abuse, retaliation and sexual coercion, he is betting that the court will focus on the workplace he says existed rather than the parts of his story that have already been challenged. What happens next will turn on whether the evidence can carry the revised case farther than the headline-making version ever could.
